The course will offer an overview of ageing studies with an insight into the theory as well as literature and culture in English it sustains. It will advance the understanding of the ageing process across life-span and its expression in different genres such as life-writing, poetry and fiction. The ESC in AS will interrogate the cultural articulations of ageing and old age in relation to other critical categories such as gender, social status or sexual orientation and introduce the participants to scholarlily approaches to the study of age, grief and ageing. Whereas longevity, especially female longevity, has been the new reality, it is still dependent on the economic interests, fear, unrealistic expectations as well as frank limitations of medicine. And yet, older women and men have been constituting a creative hub that may be of undeniable importance in these difficult, pandemic-ridden times when we, more than before, search for new words, new spaces of belonging and new directions. Using literary and cultural texts, we will map out literary and cultural gerontology: older womanhood and manhood, as a fertile and urgent field of study for our present times.
Contact hours: 12 in 2 days
Total hours: 14: 12 + 2 hours reading and working at home
- Introduction to ageing studies
- Ageisms
- Memory, the body and the identity
- Life and writing
- O Bildungsroman e o Reifungsroman
- New approaches to ageing
Those interested in registering must do so until March 4th. To complete the registration, it will be necessary to fill in the registration form with all the requested data and send it to gestao.ceaul@letras.ulisboa.pt. Afterwards, you will be contacted on how to proceed with the payment.